Why?

Why are you wearing those shoes?
Because they are my comfortable shoes.
Why are they your shoes?
Because I bought them.
Noticing mine were not Velcro like his, Why are you tying your shoes?

One thing my three year-old grandson does well is ask questions. In fact, all of us probably ask our share of questions when we were growing up. That's one way we learn. It is a sign of growing, of not having all the answers.
I have also learned that patience is a major quality needed in this realm of endless questions. When I am bombarded by questions, I want to patiently answer those questions. The questioner must also be patient for an answer.
Sometimes children ask, Why, about things they don't understand, and we know they would never understand, even if we took all the time and eloquence in explaining. It's at those times I either say, Just because, or I say nothing at all. It would be no use to continually ask, or pitch a fit, or show displeasure-I am not going to answer. Not because I have no answer, but because I have no answer a little boy would understand.

Praise the Lord for His patience, His long suffering, His kindness in giving us answers in His Word to our many questions. And when I ask Him a question and find no answer, I want to be content that it is just because. He always knows best.

For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways,” says the LORD.
For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways,
and My thoughts than your thoughts. Isaiah 55:8-9